8 Quotes by Amanda Eyre Ward

Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood.

It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn’t worked out.

Martyrdom was a hard habit to break.

Meditation is like sobriety in that it doesn’t make everything perfect but helps us be okay with how everything is.

When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.

The most accurate way to know the future is to create it.

This was one of the pleasures of recovery: you opened the door to the pain and gnawing tedium, but joy came in as well. All of it, all of it, brilliant and clean and true.

Did all siblings revert to their childhood selves when they were together, or was there a way to transition to functional adulthood even while being in one another’s lives?